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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did most street folk learn their trade?
(a) Mostly self taught.
(b) At special art schools.
(c) From their parents.
(d) As apprentices.

2. How many prostitutes did the police estimate work in London?
(a) 7-8000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 18-25,000.
(d) 2-3000.

3. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?
(a) Reduce blasphemy.
(b) Reduce abandoned children.
(c) Increase the saving of prostitutes to the Lord.
(d) Increase marriage.

4. What were fences in the section by John Binny?
(a) Receivers of stolen goods.
(b) A way to keep your business from your neighbor's eyes.
(c) The way the rich did not have to think about the poor.
(d) How the government separated the criminal sections of town from other areas.

5. What did the clown hide from his neighbors?
(a) The good money he makes.
(b) His occupation.
(c) That he came from a very wealthy family.
(d) Nothing.

6. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?
(a) They are better educated than street vendors, and the majority could read.
(b) He doesn't mention their education.
(c) They usually only have one or two years of schooling and if they can read, it is not too well.
(d) They were the least eductated of all the common people discussed.

7. Why did the clown stay a clown if he did not like doing so?
(a) He was involuntarily apprenticed to a clown and he could not break the contract.
(b) It was better pay.
(c) He couldn't get other work.
(d) His father wanted him to do it.

8. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?
(a) Rats.
(b) Unlucky stiffs.
(c) Budding criminals.
(d) Lazy varmits.

9. What did Mayhew call the fact that many would rather starve than accept charity?
(a) Stubborn.
(b) Admirable.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Stupid.

10. What had recently become illegal in London?
(a) Gerrymandering.
(b) Pornography including obscene books and pictures.
(c) Tobacco use.
(d) Alcohol use.

11. What did the photographic man do before this job?
(a) Banjo player.
(b) Singer.
(c) Bouncer.
(d) Bar keeper.

12. Where was the convicted thief who was interviewed born?
(a) Sussex.
(b) A gypsy camp.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Paris.

13. What did the mother of the magician do to the family library?
(a) Sold it all off.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Donated the library to the London museum.
(d) Burned it when she was delirious and thought books were evil.

14. Who is the author of the section on Suppression of Vice and Crime?
(a) Father Joseph McDougal.
(b) Rev. William Tuckniss, B.A.
(c) Professor John Dreyfuss.
(d) Mayhew.

15. When did the magician's father die?
(a) He was still alive at the time of the interview.
(b) When the magician was 25.
(c) When the magician was 2.
(d) When the magician was 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were street folk different from patterers?

2. Altogether, what is the approximate number of women and children?

3. How many visits per day did each missionary make on average?

4. What seemed to be part of the motivation for a street person to perform?

5. What must someone who is physically or mentally unable to work do?

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